Mousey and Catsy
Happy birthday to my wife, bethje! Our relationship has been a little rocky recently, but we still love each other. I just wish I didn't have to rely on her for so much. Being dependent sucks, but it's always been my lot in life. It's because I'm pathetic, I guess. I'm getting off the point here, though, aren't I?
Tonight's (possibly last night's by the time I actually post this) Simpsons episode wasn't bad, but really didn't give us anything new. Really, we've seen pretty much everything in it before. There have been other episodes about Lisa not wanting to turn out like one or the other of her parents, and about her wanting to go to private school. What's weird is that we saw her worrying about not having enough extracurricular activities a few episodes ago, and now she's trying to get rid of outside interests to concentrate on academics. Funny how they're pretty much totally contradictory but still in character in Lisa. In fact, it seems like the only major part we HAVEN'T seen before is the series of coincidences by which Bart keeps getting the better of Nelson, and that was good for a few laughs, but didn't go much of anywhere. The beginning bit with Homer buying a lot of gas to try to get the right Happy Little Elves toy for Maggie was also new, and probably the best part.
Why does it seem like so much of my Digital Preservation class consists of trying to create profiles and log in to various websites and applications? I believe I mentioned how difficult it was for me to arrange a school FTP account, and today the problem was with something called PLATO. I had to contact the professor to even get a copy of the instructions that would load on my computer, and the first step was to create an account on the PLATO site. For several hours after I first tried, the site was down for maintenance, and when it was finally up again it took a while to receive my login information. If it weren't for all this struggling with logins, that class might not be anywhere near as time-consuming.
What else have I been doing recently? Well, let's see. Aside from school, work doctors' appointments, reading, and Internetting have taken up most of my time, and there isn't much interesting to say about any of those. Right now, I'm making some selections for the end-of-the-year mix that I make annually and I'm not sure anyone else ever listens to. Oh, well. It's still fun for me to do, and it's not like I play any part other than choosing the songs, but more feedback would still be nice. It kind of doesn't seem like anyone wants to discuss music anymore, but maybe it's just the lack of overlap in taste.
Tonight's (possibly last night's by the time I actually post this) Simpsons episode wasn't bad, but really didn't give us anything new. Really, we've seen pretty much everything in it before. There have been other episodes about Lisa not wanting to turn out like one or the other of her parents, and about her wanting to go to private school. What's weird is that we saw her worrying about not having enough extracurricular activities a few episodes ago, and now she's trying to get rid of outside interests to concentrate on academics. Funny how they're pretty much totally contradictory but still in character in Lisa. In fact, it seems like the only major part we HAVEN'T seen before is the series of coincidences by which Bart keeps getting the better of Nelson, and that was good for a few laughs, but didn't go much of anywhere. The beginning bit with Homer buying a lot of gas to try to get the right Happy Little Elves toy for Maggie was also new, and probably the best part.
Why does it seem like so much of my Digital Preservation class consists of trying to create profiles and log in to various websites and applications? I believe I mentioned how difficult it was for me to arrange a school FTP account, and today the problem was with something called PLATO. I had to contact the professor to even get a copy of the instructions that would load on my computer, and the first step was to create an account on the PLATO site. For several hours after I first tried, the site was down for maintenance, and when it was finally up again it took a while to receive my login information. If it weren't for all this struggling with logins, that class might not be anywhere near as time-consuming.
What else have I been doing recently? Well, let's see. Aside from school, work doctors' appointments, reading, and Internetting have taken up most of my time, and there isn't much interesting to say about any of those. Right now, I'm making some selections for the end-of-the-year mix that I make annually and I'm not sure anyone else ever listens to. Oh, well. It's still fun for me to do, and it's not like I play any part other than choosing the songs, but more feedback would still be nice. It kind of doesn't seem like anyone wants to discuss music anymore, but maybe it's just the lack of overlap in taste.